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Mighty Captain Marvel #1 Unlettered Preview

Marvel have released a three page unlettered preview of next months The Mighty Captain Marvel #1, the series which features members of Alpha Flight in space.
While no Alphans appear in the preview, they are shown on one Variant cover and are expected to be in the issue:

The Greatest. That’s what they call her. Carol Danvers has been to the depths of outer space and back, but that still hasn’t prepared her for her newfound status of biggest super hero ever. Yaas, Queen! Danvers may not like the crown she’s wearing, but boy does it look good on her. Just watch out for the thorns it comes with—forces trying to take down everything Carol has built. Carol Danvers makes her triumphant return as the Mighty Captain Marvel! Written by celebrity writer Margaret Stohl (Beautiful Creatures, Black Widow: Forever Red) and drawn by the artfully talented Ramon Rosanas (Ant-Man), this bold new take on Earth’s mightiest and favorite hero!

... and then it hit me.
The artist must've only heard descriptions of the Alpha Flight characters and never looked at them (one look at Sasquatch will tell you that - though I did find a picture on Pintrest of a sasquatch that was an orangutan) - so somebody said 'Puck's a dwarf' and he thought 'oh, like Tolkien'. Hence the beard.

I saw a preview of some of the art from The Mighty Captain Marvel #1 on Saturday, and have a compulsion to discuss it.

What I want to think when I look at it is how skillful it is. I want to think about how Rosanas (I've just researched the artist's name) is very good at filling in backgrounds. I want to think about how good the detail is, about subtleties of expression that I can see in the artwork, about how clear everything looks. All of which is valid.

Instead, all I can think is, 'You never studied; you've got yourself a professional gig regularly drawing characters you weren't familiar with, and instead of doing due diligence (ie: spending five minutes on the internet), you just phoned somebody up and got a vague description.

You see, years ago, John Byrne created Alpha Flight as a team to go toe-to-toe with the X-Men. In doing so, he made Sasquatch this unique, distinctive, even iconic design; something that's instantly recognisable. What Rosanas has drawn is not Walter Langkowski's alternate form but an orangutan, a species of great ape from Borneo or Sumatra. While it might be Peotr, of Red Ghost's Super-Apes, it is not Sasquatch.

After that, I was thinking about why Puck (who was designed much later, for Alpha Flight #1, but that's not important right now) suddenly has a beard - a design decision I don't like, but I don't object to. (Meaning: it's not to my personal tastes, but it's perfectly believable that the character would grow a beard.) A couple of hours after seeing it, walking through a supermarket, it hit me: Rosanas heard 'he's a bald dwarf' and thought they meant Tolkien's dwarves, and that's what he drew. I face-palmed out loud in public when I figured that out.

So instead of thinking about how nice his artwork is (and it is!), all I can think is 'he's too lazy to do research - and the editor isn't bothering either'. At least, that's the impression that the artwork gives me.

I'm sorry that that's all I can come away with. :/

~ Mik Bennett,
Canberra, Australia

OKAY TO PRINT

That was the diplomatic version.

~ Le Messor
"The only mission statement a company needs: You shall know them by their deeds."
~ P.K. Shaw

Puck's beard looks better later on, so not sure if it's just the angle of that panel.
He gets a few more panels, and I'm quite interested in the Puck/Brand chemistry personally.
Still hating the use of "Squatch" as even Puck is using it now...

I'm not saying it looks bad (except in the sense I'm not a fan of facial hair in general), or even that there's anything wrong with it ('cept... how quickly did he grow that thing?). Just, in combination with that drawing of A sasquatch (not the Sasquatch), I don't think the artist did his research.

~ Le Messor"If you can talk brilliantly about a problem, it can create the consoling illusion that it has been mastered."
~ Stanley Kubrick